MEMORY OF M. DOUMER

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 110, 11 May 1932, Page 7

MEMORY OF M. DOUMER

PRESIDENT OF FRANCE

LIFE AN INSPIRATION

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 11th May, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, JLOth May.

Warm tributes to the memory of the French President, M. Doumer, weje paid by both Houses of Parliament. In the House of Lords, an address requesting the King to express on behalf of the House its abhorrence of the crime and sympathy with' the Government and people of France in their grief was moved by Lord Hailsham. He said that the -whole world was shocked at the news of the murderous attack on M. Doumer and its fatal outcome. That a noble' life given to public service should be struck down by the irresponsible hand of an assassin was a shock to the moral sense of the civilised community. The late President left behind him a memory of personal integrity, patriotism, and unflinching courage, which could only deepen for the French'people their sense of loss, but which surely would be an inspiration to his in the days to come. Lords Ponsonby and Beading supported the motion.'

In ,the House of Commons, a similar address was. moved,by Mr. Stanley Baldwin and seconded by the Opposition Leader, Mr. G. E. Lansbury. Both motions were unanimously approved in silence.